Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision — Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.

Google Ends Hello — Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: — Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.

If a Google app falls in the forest... Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped has the sad story of Hello, which has just been shut down (Josh Catone at Read/Write Web has already beaten me to the inevitable headline). Of course, it's only a sad story if you have any clue what Hello was …

AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site — On-again free hotspot access now off-again — Computerworld) Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.

RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback — To Garnett's right is the MPAA's Fritz Attaway — LOS ANGELES—News of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). — At a time when the top recording …

House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act — The House of Representatives has approved the Pro-IP Act, a controversial legislative proposal that aims to impose stricter penalties for copyright infringement. The bill, which has strong support from the content industry, passed by a vote of 410 to 10.

Limelight Networks Reports First Quarter 2008 Results — Signed 183 new customers, up from 84 new customers in last year's first quarter, including 35 international and 77 signed in March — Introduced Limelight Live Event Services - a solution of professional services and advanced technologies …

Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs — Designing blogs is easy. Designing blogs in a unique way is hard. Whatever blog engine you are using, there are literally thousands of templates available which you can apply directly, without any significant code modifications.

Best Online File Sharing Services — Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service …

Does The GPL Still Matter? — from the expired-license? dept — The GNU General Public License heads to court again today, as Skype attempts to defend its distribution of Linux-enabled SMC hardware handsets that appear to be in violation of the operating system's open source license.